20 Best TV Shows Of 2019
6. Last Week Tonight
Last Week Tonight returned for its sixth season this year, and was as eclectic as ever. Covering everything from Brexit to the WWE, to how brutal dictatorships whitewash their image via Guinness World Records and the outdated nature of the filibuster, Last Week Tonight will talk about absolutely anything.
What’s more, John Oliver somehow makes it all wonderfully compelling too.
After failing to make much of an impact in his native Britain, Oliver’s success writing for The Daily Show helped him land his own project, Last Week Tonight in 2014. Since then, their unique brand of deep dives have made even the driest of topics much watch affairs.
This year saw the show create its own mascot for a Japanese town, bake a huge cake to humiliate the horse loving President of Turkmenistan and interview Monica Lewinski on trial by public opinion. Without a doubt though their biggest set piece was a massive musical number which saw Oliver tell coal magnate Bob Murray to ‘eat sh*t’ while explaining the dangers of frivolous lawsuits against the media.